TradeAgent Senior Lead Platform Engineer

Stellar Senior Lead Platform Engineer

(Technology Products > Software Development > Senior Lead Developer, Career Stage = Manager)

Role Profile

The successful candidate for the Stellar Senior Lead Platform Engineer/SREe, reporting to the Stellar Director of Technical Solutions & Delivery, will form part of a team building a complex and from grounds up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture part of LSEG.  This exciting opportunity requires a candidate who takes great pride in delivery excellence with excellent logical and technical skills and a can-do attitude combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and growing a new business.

Key Responsibilities

·       Design, develop and maintain infrastructure for cloud-based trading platforms tracking KPI metrics and improvement.

·       Be able to take ownership of the quality of the platform and act as SRE for non-production environments

·       Support complex application stacks across multiple cloud environments

·       Automate the deployment of Cloud based resources to ensure high availability, performance, scalability and security.

·       Track and improve platform running cost and be part of the FinOps operating model

·       Be part of the devops practice in developing best practices and guidance

·       Enable and guide product teams through implementation of deployment pipelines and deployment strategy from dev to prod in a cloud based env.

·       Tread development teams as your customer while and help them in defining their processes, running proof of concepts, using best practices and selecting best-fit solutions

·       Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted.

Key Skills, Experience and Behaviours

·                Excellent understanding of CI/CD methodologies with good hands-on experience

·                Solid understanding of IaC principles and good hands-on experience using Terraform to build AWS Infra.

·                Extensive experience in developing/managing CI/CD pipelines preferably using Gitlab.

·                Experience with Container technologies and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm etc.

·                Experience deploying apps to Kubernetes.

·                Good hands on exp using config management tools such as Ansible etc.

·                Experience using code analysis and security tools such as Coverity and Blackduck.

·                Experience with scripting languages such as groovy, bash or python.

·                Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog etc.

·                Successful Scaled Agile delivery experience.

·                Ability to use wide range of Open-source tools.

·                Experience working with Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS (Preferred)

·                Proficiency securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure

·                Experience collaboration with cross-functional teams across multiple regions and timezone

·                Mentoring and developing junior team members

·                Experience working in highly regulated financial industries

·                Experience of being an SRE/Platform engineer for cloud based trading solutions that are widely used by industry

Key Behaviours

• You have demonstrated a keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and managing your stakeholders’ expectations.
• You can demonstrate ability to take on responsibility and be accountable for it.
• You can work well within a team, is able to be helpful and collaborate with each other for the good of the
• You are able to work with product, architecture and delivery to understand their requirements in depth and translate that into robust timely delivered applications.
• You can be critical and challenging while maintain respect.
• You understand the importance of communication within a team and have championed it in the past.
• You have a desire to learn, improve and innovate.
• You have very high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• You are an engineer at heart that enjoys working with various technologies have an appetite for taking on challenges and maximising new technologies while minimising complexity.

Diversity & Inclusion

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business.  Our colleagues thrive personally and professionally through our shared values of Integrity, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence are at the core of our culture.  We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives.  We are always looking at ways to become more agile so we meet the needs of our teams and customers. We believe that an inclusive collaborative workplace is pivotal to our success and supports the potential and growth of all colleagues at LSEG.

About Us

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) is a diversified international market infrastructure and capital markets business sitting at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group can trace its history back to 1698.

The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, a pan-European equities MTF. It is also home to one of the world’s leading growth markets for SMEs, AIM. Through its platforms, the Group offers international business and investors unrivalled access to Europe's capital markets.

Post trade and risk management services are a significant part of the Group’s business operations. In addition to majority ownership of multi-asset global CCP operator, LCH Group, LSEG operates CC&G, the Italian clearing house; the T2S-ready European settlement business; and globeSettle, the Group’s newly established CSD based in Luxembourg.

The Group is a global leader in indexing and analytic solutions. FTSE Russell offers thousands of indexes that measure and benchmark markets around the world.  The Group also provides customers with an extensive range of real time and reference data products, including SEDOL, UnaVista, and RNS.

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Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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